BIBLIOGRAPHY

ville: Mariner and Mystic (1921) was not superseded by the
biographies by J. Freeman (1926) and L- Mumford (1929), but C.
R, Anderson's Melville in the South Seas (1939) added enormously
to the knowledge of Melville during the Pacific years, and of the
sources of his tales. II. II. Scudder's Melville's Benito Cercno and
Captain Delano's Voyages, in Publications of the Modern Language
Association, XLIII (1928), 502-32, and R. P. McCulchcon's The
Technique of Melville's Israel Potter, in South Atlantic Quarterly,
XXVII (1928), 161-74, further illustrate Melville's use of his sources.
J, N. Rcynolds's Mocha Dick, a probable source of Moby Diet pub-
lished in Knickerbocker Magazine, May 1839, was reprinted with an
introduction by L. L. Balcolm (1933), C. Olson's Jx\?r and Moby
Dick, in Twice a Year, I (1938), 165-89, is notable atnong the many
discussions of the novel. Carl Van Doren's Lucifer from Nantucket,
first published in the Century, CX (1925), 494-501, has been drawn
upon for Chapter V above.

Chapter VI

Edmund Pearson's Dime Novels (1929) is the fullest account of
the type and its history. For Cookc see J. C). Beaty's John Ksten
Cooke, Virginian (1922); for Winthrop, Laura Winthrop Johnson's
Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884), K. IX Branch's The
Sentimental Years, 1830-1860 (1934) is useful The Life of Donald
Grant Mitchell (1922) by W. II. Dunn is more detailed than George
William Curtis (1894) by Edward Gary. K. P. Hoe; Reminiscences
of His Life (1889) by Mary A, Roe and Lew Wallace; An Auto-
biography (1906) are the principal sources of information about these
writers. Mrs. Stowe's Writings were collected in 16 volumes (1896)*
There were biographies by C. E. Stowc (1889), Annie Fields (1897),
C. E. and L. B. Stowe (1911), L. B. Stowe's Saints, Sinners, and
Beechers (1934) contains the most recent discussion of Mrs. Stowe,
and Constance Rourlce's Trumpets of Jubilee (1927) the best

Chapter VII

The Great American Novel was discussed by J. W. DC Forest in
Nation for 9 January 1868; by T. S, Perry in North American Review
for October 1872; by Lew Wallace in Old and New for February

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